The elitist media celebrated another “massive” and “historic” set of “No Kings” protests on the Left, but they can’t seem to remember the Democrats cracking down on conservative “disinformation,” from COVID to climate to the Biden scandals. You’re supposed to forget the Democrats’ “Disinformation Governance Board” and Nina Jankowicz — if you ever warned about that at all.
MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider and FSA staff writer Tom Olohan joined the show to discuss social media and the “kings” of content moderation.
The new free-speech victory in the Missouri v. Biden case was ignored by the press. Last week, Senator and former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced on X that “We just won Missouri v. Biden,” a case he brought against the Biden administration for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to censor speech. The courts resolved the case with a 10-year consent decree that will restrict the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency from threatening and coercing Big Tech Companies to censor users.
That was not a story, but on Thursday, all the national newspapers made a front-page story out of a California jury verdict that found Meta (Instagram/Facebook) and Google’s YouTube liable for deliberately designing addictive platforms that harmed young users. The TV networks were all over this, too. It’s funny that the networks weren’t as interested when Brent Bozell’s Parents Television Council was pointing fingers at TV networks in prime time, like an orgy scene on a CBS show Without A Trace in 2004.
While MRC underlined the 57 Biden censorship initiatives, the Left held “No Kings” rallies in a reported 3,000 cities because somehow Trump is a king, destroying the First Amendment. Never mind that the Left never stops talking about what a tyrant he is. The protesters demanded Trump be removed from office immediately, and never mind that Trump was elected with a majority of the popular vote.
Speaking of alleged authoritarianism, FCC chairman Brendan Carr announced at CPAC said President Trump is winning the war on the fake news media, like defunding PBS and NPR, and a bunch of annoying journalists ended up on Substack. People like David Folkenflik and Brian Stelter think Carr shouldn’t be so aligned with the president. They don’t mind if Democrat-appointed FCC chairs act like Democrats. That’s all good. You can see the media can be depressed about its powers. But we who monitor the media daily wouldn’t say the content has changed much at all.
Hundreds gathered in Yorktown Heights, New York to remember the life of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, who was shot by an illegal alien near Loyola University in Chicago. We still can’t get more than a few seconds of coverage of this. FSA found Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News did not promote a single article about Gorman in the top 20 of their morning editions between March 20 and 25. The apps did have 29 articles about other deaths or murders, however.
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